Inside the USAID Fire Sale
Updated at 7:31 p.m. ET on August 26, 2025One of the more surreal knock-on effects of the gutting of USAID is that the U.S. government is now holding a massive...
Healthcare
Insurance verification in healthcare: Why accuracy and speed matter
Key takeaways: Billing mistakes and claims delays are common when providers rely on manual patient insurance verification processes. Automated patient insurance verification can speed up eligibility checks and ensure patient...
Immigration Raids Seen Driving Patients Towards Telehealth
Patients’ fears of immigration raids lead them to miss doctors' appointments, reported Christine Mai-Duc for KFF Health News on August 14. Some doctors had stopped offering telehealth visits after the...
Price Transparency Data Reveals the Real Story Behind Capital Women’s Care vs UnitedHealthcare Contract Battle (Part 1) – The Health Care Blog
By JASON HINES On August 1, 2025, Capital Women’s Care (CWC), one of the largest OB/GYN practices in the Mid-Atlantic region went out-of-network with UnitedHealthcare, affecting tens of thousands of women across...
Inside In-Home Wound Care’s Value-Based Transformation
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Achieving optimal patient outcomes in wound care is now increasingly tied to value-based approaches that emphasize quality, efficiency and collaborative, data-driven...
How Secure Are Modern Collaboration Platforms for Healthcare?
Password Protection and End-to-End Encryption Roopam Jain, vice president of the information and communications technologies practice at Frost & Sullivan, says that organizations should be concerned about unauthorized access...
Prescription Drug Pricing in America – a 3-Part Update, From the Over- the-Counter OPill and “Half-Price” Ozempic to Most-Favored-Nation Rx (Part 3)
Welcome to Part 2 of 3 in my consideration of Prescription Drug Pricing in America. You can catch up with yesterday’s Part 1 post here, and Part 2 here. The macro-context...
Develop Health Secures $14.3M to Streamline Prior Authorization
Develop Health’s Series A funding round was led by Wing Venture Capital, and included participation from Afore Capital, J Ventures and South Park Commons. The post Develop Health Secures $14.3M...
Doctors take on RFK Jr. on back-to-school COVID vaccines
The medical community is waging a public relations fight against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over COVID-19 vaccines as students head back to school across the United States. The...
A ‘MAHA Box’ Might Be Coming to Your Doorstep
Millions of Americans might soon have mail from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The health secretary—who fiercely opposes industrial, ultraprocessed foods—now wants to send people care packages full of farm-fresh alternatives....
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